Hi,
a quick hack to solve your problem:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $string = "foo" x 4;
print "$string\n";
my $pattern = "foo";
my $better = "bar";
my $n=1;
$string =~ s/^(($pattern){$n})$pattern/$1$better/;
print "$string\n";
$n holds the number of occurences
to be skipped, so $n = 1 means the
second will be replaced. The output:
atl@companion:~/perl/s > one.pl
foofoofoofoo
foobarfoofoo
I believe that's what you wanted. IMHO it ain't ugly,
too. ;-)
Have fun ...
Andreas
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